Warning that a Middle East empty of Christians would be “just like the Taliban,” Iraq’s most senior Catholic leader pointedly…
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Ten years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Christians have dwindled from more than a million to as little as…
Baghdad ( AsiaNews) – Baghdad’s local government has decided to show its solidarity with the Christians and try to stem…
For almost two millennia Christian communities have lived in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. These groups…
“The Armenian population is melting.” This bleak assessment was pronounced by Sahak Mashalyan, an Armenian Orthodox priest, during a recent…
Christian Refugees from Syria Number Around 30 Thousand. Dimensions of the Maaloula Catastrophe Go Beyond the Displacement of Hundreds of…
Worshippers attend a mass at the Syriac Orthodox Church in Al-Darbasiyah, Hasakah province on Nov. 13, 2013. Due to the…
Meeting of Pope Francis with the Eastern Catholic Patriarchs, Assembly of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches Gregorios III: “Frank,…
At the Vatican, 21 November 2013 Most Holy Father 1. The Patriarchate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church has its…
This report addresses the important question of the Eastern Catholic Patriarch’s direct and unmediated patriarchal jurisdiction for their faithful in…